You get a karaoke disc player, disks, 2 mics and the appropriate cables. I imagine that we could hook these up to the projector and sound desk. The disc player and discs can be hired separately, but that comes to bullseye too.

swithun wrote:S if you have no joy with this posting i have a normal dvd player that S plays CDG'S and a collection of about 15 kareoke discs (my daughters) S i would be willing to lend to you for the night as long as i was S promised they would be returned safely and if damaged paod for.. i S would deliver set up and then pick up the next day

Wow. This is a very kind offer. I'll see what the other people at the cafe think, but I doubt we can get better than this. Can I ask what sort of stuff is on the discs.

We were planning on holding the party at the beginning of April. I'll see what else turns up, but your offer will be hard to beat. We would certainly look after your equipment and make good any damage.

That was an email from a freecycler and my reply. If we go for this, can we offer this kind person a deposit for the kit or something so everything is safe as fuck? I suppose we could get some more CDGs from somewhere else, if we had the player. I'll find out what is on these discs.

Thanks. I'll let this person know we can stretch to a deposit if they want more than our good word. 50 quid?

I'll look into these CDG bad boys and how playable they are. I suppose the only way to see if our DVD player can handle them is to get hold of one.

As a challenge, anyone can make their own karaoke DVD by finding some film, finding an instrumental track, merging them and overlaying words on the screen and authoring it as a DVD track. How hard can it be? I intend to make a sing along Rammstein DVD. You have been warrrrrned.

The karaoke person will be down sometime late afternoon/early evening. They might need a hand unloading the stuff from their car. Then they might park somewhere and come back to explain how it all works. I think it will be just like a DVD player, but you never know. Do we have something nice to give them for helping out?

They sent me a list of songs they have and which CDGs they are on. If they don't bring down a copy, I can print one out. This will help people to choose a song to sing. There were a lot of Sugarbabes songs, but this is because they are lending their daughter's collection.